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F. C. MAEGLY.

CELLED CARTON.

APPLICATION FILED AUG 8.1918.

1 ,3 1 3,948 Patented Aug. 26,1919.

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O O O O o J61 1M W NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

FREDERICK 0. men

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CHALED CARTON.

Application filed August 8,

' To all whom it may concern:

useful Improvements in Be it known that I, FREDERICK 0. Marion, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and CelledCartons, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawin%, forming a part thereof.

he purpose of this invention is to provide an improved construction ofcelled cartons such as egg-case fillers, which shall be more rigid inconstruction and more economical 1n manufacture than such devices as thesame have been heretofore made. consists in the elements and features ofconstruction shown and described as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a lan view of an egg-case filler embodying t is invention.

Fig. 2 is a dissected vertical section at the line 2-2 on Fig. 1, thatis showing the several cell frames of the carton separated grom eachother and'from the intervening ats.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a blank from which the cell partitions are outwithout waste, showing the lines of cutting.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of one of the flats.

The celled carton shown in the drawings ma [be understood to be anegg-case ler, alt ough the invention is not limited to cartons for thatparticular purpose or having the special dimensions for that purpose.Indeed, the cartons embodying this invention may be desirably employedfor packing and shipping bottles or lass cans or the like, which requireprotection a ainst breakage, the dimensions of the ce ls being in thatcase adapted to the particular article to acked therein.

he carton comprises cell frames composed of intersecting, interlockingpartitions 1 and 2, frames being super-imposed one upon another withintervening flats 3. The partitions which form the cell frames may e allalike, that is the two sets which intersect each other may be identicalin form, unless the designs of the transverse slit for interlocking aredifferent in the two sets, as is sometimes the case. The particular typeof interlocking slits shown is one which causes the two sets ofstrips tobe identical in form. This feature is not apart of the Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

1918. Serial no. Macao.

present invention and requires no description here.

Each strip of both sets 1 and 2 has projecting from each of its twoopposite longitudinal edges short tongues, 4:, one for each cell of therow'of cells along one side of the strip, the projection for each cellbeing situated at a point intermediate the corner of the cell and themiddle point of the side of the same; and for each cell the tonguesprojecting from the two opposite edges of the strips are at oppositesides of the middle oint of the cell side to which they pertain.

referably these projections are approximately equally distant from thecorner and from the middle point of the cell, but rather nearer themiddle point than the corner, so that, while avoidin having the tonguesat the middle point for avoidance of certain objections, they are notmore remote than necessary from either corner, because obviously, thecorner from which the tongue is more remote, is less sustained and moreeasily deflected out of its roper position, which is to be avoided as aras consistent with avoiding the middle position of the tongue andavoiding the use of two tongues from the same edge for each cell. Bystagering the tongues as described, that is making the tongues from theopposite edges of the strips at opposite sides of the middle point ofthe cell, and forming only one tongue for each cell on each edge, it isrendered possible to cut all the strips from a continuous strip ofcardboard without waste, the tongues being cut from a recess in the edgeof the next adjacent strip in the sheet without the function of thestrips in the making of the cells and, indeed, with advantage becausethese recesses furnish additional ventilating a ertures for the cells.

The ats having apertures for receiving all the tongues of both sets ofstrips, have such apertures arranged in two sets of rows transverse toeach other, and all of the flats are precisely alike and may be appliedeither side up in any assembling of the material to form the completedcarton. It will be observed that while in each flat there are twoapertures for each of the four walls of each cell, there are projectingupward from each of the frames when formed by assembling theintersecting strips, tongues, one for each wall of each cell, occupyinghalf of the aperin any way interfering with' i frames are checked by 15'tures in the flat, while from in the flats.

the lower edges of the next frame above, there are downwardly projectingtongues one from each wall of each cell, and that these downwardprojections engage the remaining apertures Thus each cell has all fourwalls secured by the engagement of one tongue projecting from each wallinan aperture of the flat at the top and each of its four walls, in likemanner, secured by the engagement of one tongue projecting from eachwall in an aperture of the flat at the bottom. Thus all the flatsand'all the their mutual engagement with each other against displacementin either direction at either top or bottom of the cells, and that bothstrips and. flats are cut absolutely without waste except as to thesmall amount of material punched from the apertures of the flats, and byreason of the fact that all the strlps are alike, it is impossible tomake any error in assembling the strlps which will prevent bottom of theframes forming images the proper assemblage of the flats with theframes.

I claim:

1. A celled carton and the like,.compris mg superimposed cell frames,each consisting of two sets of intersecting interlocking partitionstrips, and flats at the top and the tops and bottoms of the cell, eachstrlp having for each cell a projection from each edge at a pointintermediate the middle and the'corner of the cell, and the flats havingapertures in two sets of rows transverse to each other for receivingsaid projection.

i- 2. In a celled carton such as defined in claim 1 foregoing, theprojectionsfrom the opposite edges of each strip being for each cell atopposite sides of the middle point of the side of the cell.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Chicago, Illinois,this 6th day of August, 1918.

- FREDERICK C. MAEGLY.

